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Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on 04-08-05)

JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 293; No. 13

• Readability of Notice of Privacy Forms Used by Major Health Care Institutions
• Evaluating Iatrogenic Risk of Youth Suicide Screening Programs: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Diuretics Are Color Blind [Editorial]
• FDA Panel: Keep COX-2 Drugs on Market [News]
• Pharmaceutical Industry Funding for Residencies Sparks Controversy [News]
• Global Public Goods for Health: Health Economic and Public Health Perspectives [Book Review]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 352; No. 14

• The Cutter Incident, 50 Years Later [Editorial]
• . . . And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
• Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice [Book Reviews]
• Dying Justice: A Case for Decriminalizing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada [Book Review]

The Lancet Vol. 365; No. 9466

• Reining in direct-to-customer advertising [Editorial]
• Ethnicity in sexually transmitted infections and sexual behaviour research
• Healing and peace making in the middle east: challenges for doctors
• Firms fill antiretroviral gap in South Africa
• Russian scientists voice concern over "stem-cell cosmetics" [News]
• Ethnic variations in sexual behaviour in Great Britain and risk of sexually transmitted infections: a probability survey
• Promoting Arab and Israeli cooperation: peacebuilding through health initiatives
• Treatment of sick children during low-intensity conflict

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 330; No. 7494

• Open access, and proud of it [Editorial]
• Meeting the ethical needs of doctors [Editorial]
• Five pitfalls in decisions about diagnosis and prescribing
• US and UK health care: a special relationship?  Moving towards true integration
• Your money where your mouse is [Commentary]
• The biggest conflict of interest [Commentary]
• Parents should have right to choose sex of child, say MPs [News]
• US Supreme Court refuses to intervene in "right to die" case [News]
• Dutch Supreme Court backs damages for child for having been born [News]
• FDA seeks to ease burden on trial review boards [News]

Annals of Internal Medicine Vol. 142; No. 7

• American College of Physicians' Ethics Manual: Fifth Edition

Nature Vol. 434; No. 7034

• Uncomfortable truths [Editorial]
• Pope praised for partial conciliation of science and religion [News]
• Professors bristle as states act to mould lecture content [News]
• Postdocs slam zealous attitude of NIH ethics office [News]
• Stem-cell research: After the gold rush

Science Vol. 308; No. 5719

• Twilight for the Enlightenment? [Editorial]
• Dawkins' God Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life [Book Review]
• U.S. Patent Law: Case Probes What's Fair Game in the Search for New Drugs
• Scientists, Societies Blast NIH Ethics Rules [News]

Bioethics Vol. 19; No. 2 (All Abstracts have links to PDFs.)

• Editorial
• Narrative Artifice and Women's Agency
• Research Participation and the Right to Withdraw
• Does a Normal Foetus Really Have a Future of Value: A Reply to Marquis
• Ethics and Synthetic Gametes
• Human Embryonic Stem Cell Rresearch: Why The Discarded-Created-Distinction Cannot be Based on the Potentiality Argument

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 60; No. 11

• Aids, race and the limits of science
• The place of death of cancer patients: can qualitative data add to known factors?
• A model of underlying socioeconomic vulnerability in human populations: evidence from variability in population health and implications for public health
• Exploring the generalisability of the association between income inequality and self-assessed health
• Racialized bodies, disabling worlds "they [service providers] always saw me as a client, not as a worker”

Bioethics News
(Updated on 04-11-05)

Experts debate age limits for childbearing : Committee grapples with needs of kids vs. those of parents
The Boston Globe
Published April 8, 2005
URL for this article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0504080308apr08,1,5329065.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Who gets stem cell funding is the $3 Billion Question:
Bay Area scientists studying Alzheimer's, sickle cell anemia among those seeking cash
The Oakland Tribune
Published April 10, 2005
URL for this article: http://www.insidebayarea.com/searchresults/ci_2648648

Families quizzed on donation view
Bereaved families are to be asked what influenced them in making the difficult decision over whether or not to allow a loved one's organs to be donated.
BBC NEWS
Published April 9, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/4420851.stm

The Other Stem-Cell Debate
The New York Times
Published April 10, 2005
URL for this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/magazine/10CHIMERA.html?pagewanted=all&position=&oref=login

Stem-cell vote met with anger
The Washington Times
Published April 11, 2005
URL for this article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050410-115618-9387r

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on 04-08-05)

National News and Commentary:

Stem cell research continues to be a divisive issue. AMED News, 11 April 2005.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/04/11/prse0411.htm

The Thoughtful Distinction Between Embryo and Human. Chronicle, 8 April 2005. http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i31/31b01001.htm

House to Vote on Stem Cell Bill. Chronicle, 8 April 2005. http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i31/31a02204.htm

Connecticut General Assembly Joint Committee Approves Bills to Fund Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Ban Reproductive Cloning. Kaiser Network, 7 April 2005. http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/print_report.cfm?DR_ID=29185&dr_cat=2

Changes are Weighed on Stem Cells. New York Times, 7 April 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/politics/07stem.html?

Assembly session might end with Senate no vote on stem cell research. BaltimoreSun, 7 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-md.stems07apr07,1,5732768.story

NIH Agency Chiefs Criticize Federal Policy on Stem Cells. Washington Post, 7 April 2005. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32390-2005Apr6.html

Venture Will Sell Licenses to Use Cloning Patents. Wall Street Journal, 6 April 2005.

Dog gets stem cell transplant. BaltimoreSun, 7 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/sns-ap-dog-transplant,1,1821323.story

New Pope Could Influence Political Life in America. New York Times, 4 April 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/04/politics/04politics.html?hp&ex=1112673600&en=7c055c0833273155&ei=5094&partner=homepage

States drafting laws on stem cell research. BaltimoreSun, 4 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-md.stem04apr04,1,4709433.story

Maryland must explore stem cells’ promise. BaltimoreSun, 4 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.stemcell04apr04,1,494725.story

Massachusetts governor resigned to defeat on stem cell bill. CNN News, 1 April 2005.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/01/stem.cells.ap/index.html

House approves stem cell research. Boston Globe, 1 April 2005. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/04/01/house_approves_stem_cell_research/

StemCells, Inc. Issues FDA Update on Proposed Clinical Trial. Dow Jones Newswires, 31 March 2005. http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20050331_002110-search,00.html?collection=autowire%

Stem cell swap. CNN News, 31 March 2005. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/03/31/stem.cell/index.html

Spotlight shines on obscure science. Boston Globe, 31 March 2005. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2005/03/31/spotlight_shines_on_obscure_science/

Research News:

Hair is a good source of stem cells. BBC News, 28 March 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4378941.stm

Multipotent nestin-positive, keratin-negative hair-follicle bulge stem cells can form neurons. PNAS (2005):102:15:5530-5534.

Derivation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines in Serum Replacement Medium Using Postnatal Human Fibroblasts as Feeder Cells. Stem Cells (2005):23:544-549. http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/23/4/544.pdf

Activin A Maintains Pluripotency of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in the Absence of Feeder Layers. Stem Cells (2005):23:489-495. http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/23/4/489.pdf

International News:

Spain

Spain Catholic Church Starts Anti-Stem Cell Research Push. Dow Jones Newswires, 30 March 2005. http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,BT_CO_20050330_008923,00.html

UK/India

India to set up fund for stem cell research. Silicon India , 5 April 2005 . http://www.siliconindia.com/shownewsdata.asp?newsno=27573

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on 04-08-05)

In Academic Journals:

Touche: the feeling of choice
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(4):408-409.

Flexible Control of Mutual Inhibition: A Neural Model of Two-Interval Discrimination
Science. 2005;307(5712):1121-1124.

Decisions under Uncertainty: Probabilistic Context Influences Activation of Prefrontal and Parietal Cortices
J Neurosci. 2005;25(13):3304-3311.

The Iowa Gambling Task and the somatic marker hypothesis: some questions and answers
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(4):159-162.

The somatic marker hypothesis: still many questions but no answers: Response to Bechara et al
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(4):162-164.

Amygdala damage impairs emotional memory for gist but not details of complex stimuli
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(4):512-518.

The Janus face of Mnemosyne
Nature. 2005;434(7033):567-567.

Mind, Brain, and Personality Disorders
Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(4):648-655.

Neurocognitive insights into substance abuse
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(4):195-201.

Psychosis in the Community and in Prisons: A Report From the British National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity
Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(4):774-780.

Dopaminergic polymorphisms associated with self-report measures of human altruism: a fresh phenotype for the dopamine D4 receptor
Molecular Psychiatry. 2005;10(4):333-335.

Neuroethics, reductionism and dualism [Letter]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(4):172-172.

Reply to Jedlicka: Neuroethics, reductionism and dualism [Reply]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(4):173-173.

A state of ignorance [Editorial]
Nature. 2005;434(7033):545-545.

The Oxford Companion to the Mind, 2nd ed. [Book Review]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(4):169-170.

Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past [Book Review]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(4):170-172.

In the Popular Press:

Neurocosmetology (interviews Peter Rabins)
[Audio playback requires RealPlayer]
Philosophy Talk (Radio Program). 22 March 2005.

Why Logic Often Takes A Backseat: The study of neuroeconomics may topple the notion of rational decision-making
Business Week. 28 March 2005.

A Pill That Helps Ease Grips of Irrational Fears
New York Times. 22 March 2005 .

African Bioethics News